The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - The judicial branch currently manages around 430 facilities across all 58 counties. Its facility program is responsible for various activities including maintaining these facilities, managing leases, and constructing new courthouses to replace outdated facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - The remaining 10  percent supports partnerships in which a provider partners with local courts to provide legal assistance to self-represented people (such as self-help centers). Wide Range of Assistance Provided by Self-Help Centers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, the California Department of Health Care Access and Information in 2022 estimated that there would be a shortage of psychiatrists and behavioral health providers in all 58 California counties by 2025, with 27 prisons located in counties experiencing high or severe shortages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2023-24 Budget: Judicial Branch Budget Proposals

Feb 10, 2023 - The judicial branch currently manages around 450 facilities across all 58 counties. Its facility program is responsible for various activities including maintaining these facilities, managing leases, and constructing new courthouses to replace outdated facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4673

Judicial Branch Actions Responding to COVID-19

May 6, 2020 - At the time this post was prepared, the Chief Justice also approved numerous emergency orders requested by the Supreme Court, each of the state ’s six Courts of Appeal, and 54 of 58 trial courts. These orders made various changes in the way the courts requesting them operate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4227

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - However, beginning in 2022-23, expenditures began outpacing revenues, shrinking the fund balance. The Governor ’s budget estimates that the DROS Special Account will be insolvent in 2026-27 if no action is taken.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - The judicial branch currently manages around 435  facilities across all 58 counties. Its facility program is responsible for various activities including maintaining these facilities, managing leases, and constructing new courthouses to replace outdated facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The California State Bar: Considerations for a Fee Increase

Jun 26, 2019 - As we will discuss in greater detail later, these increased costs are in part due to the State Bar ’s request that the Legislature increase its annual fees to pay for 58 n ew positions. Major Components of Employee Compensation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4080

The 2017-18 Budget: Trial Courts and the County Office of Education General Fund Offset

Feb 16, 2017 - Each of California ’s 58 counties has a COE. COEs oversee the budgets and academic plans of school districts within their jurisdictions. Many COEs also operate certain alternative schools and provide various optional services to school districts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3567

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - Under the Governor ’s budget, the required deposits in those years increase to nearly $6.7  billion and the state makes an additional $3.1  billion deposit in 2022 ‑23. By 2022 ‑23, the cumulative balance would be more than $9.7   billion —nearly 10  percent of the total Proposition  98 funding allocated to schools and community colleges that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492